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Friday, October 31, 2014

I’m here today to share my progress
with you on my Women of Substance altered book project. Here’s the third
entry inspired by the colors of Prima’s Epiphany paper collection. At the time
I created these pages, the Prima papers were not yet available to the public. I
lost patience in waiting for them to be released and decided to create my own
take on the colors and design. I’m enjoying how the journaling spaces on the
pages are turning out just by creating an illusion of space and using some
stamps and chipboard pieces which add interest and texture. Yea for
chipboard! Ancestry.com is helping me fill in some gaps in my
family history and I will be using that information in the journaling spaces.
I still ache to apply voluminous petal flowers, and other objects with
dimension, and I struggle with creating “flatty” pages, but my goal is to get
as many photos of this subject matter in this particular book. It does
however make me use my old punches and dies more. I only wish I started
working on altered books sooner, because not only does it allow me to
incorporate mixed media, photos, and journaling, but I don’t have to worry
about finding space to store a book. I see more altered books in my
future.

Saturday, October 4, 2014

Have you heard of that old adage, "If you don't send your ship out, it won't come in?"

Well, my ship came in! Yea!!!!

I sent in the art journal page below I created while on the Blue Fern Studios Design Team to Stampington Publications, and that journal page got published in the October Somerset Memories Magazine. The magazine is one of the crème de la crème of scrapbooking magazines, and over the years, I spent a lot of time viewing all the pages and art work from some of our well known scrapbooking artists. It's always so inspiring and warms your heart when you view art and read an article from your mentors. This months magazine cover features the very well known talent of Louise Nelson. I hope you pick up a copy and enjoy the works of Louise, Heather Jacobs, Tina Walker, Jasmine Shea, and so many others....

One of the eight Artists' Papers in the magazine was created by Meghan Horan using some of the art elements from my art journal page below.